Dear Angela,
You are right! Your performance with the Montreal Symphony's wonderful brass section this week was too short. Your audience yearned for more. What a delightfully illuminating experience, though, linking the Gabrieli with the Bach! Kent Nagano's vision, transmitted by your wonderful playing and that of the OSM brass players, offered a novel point of view of the culture and times of both Gabrieli and Bach. Even the massive Bruckner Symphony that followed seemed to fit the theme. It was an unusual but totally enriching evening, for sure.
Now, if only you had played more! However, if leaving your audience panting for more is a good thing, then you definitely did a good thing here in Montreal this week. Please come again soon!
One little P.S. -- your Bach DVD, which arrived in my mail box as a birthday gift in February, is an absolute treasure. It was well worth the wait.
-- Margaret Hofmann